PEPPERDINE VS. SAINT MARY'S
Date: Saturday, January 18, 2020
Site: Firestone Fieldhouse (Malibu, California)
Time: 1 p.m.
TV: CBS Sports Network
Audio: WaveCasts
Series: Pepperdine leads 72-71
Last Meeting: Gaels 72, Waves 65 (2/16/2019 in Moraga)

PEPPERDINE WAVES
2019-20 Record: 9-9
    WCC Record: 2-2
    Home Record: 6-2
Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Website: www.PepperdineWaves.com
Twitter: @PeppBasketball

SAINT MARY'S GAELS
2019-20 Record: 15-4
    WCC Record: 2-2
    Away Record: 2-1
Head Coach: Randy Bennett
Website: www.SMCGaels.com
Twitter: @saintmaryshoops

WAVEPOINTS
• The Pepperdine men's basketball team will try for its third consecutive West Coast Conference win when Saint Mary's visits on Saturday afternoon.
• Saturday is a doubleheader, with the Pepperdine women facing PCH Cup rival Loyola Marymount at 5 p.m.
• This will be the only regular-season meeting between the Waves and Gaels. It features the WCC's top two scorers in Jordan Ford (22.2 ppg) and Colbey Ross (19.9 ppg).
• Ross was named to the Lou Henson Award midseason watch list last week. He is averaging a WCC-best 7.4 assists per game. Nationally, he's third in total assists (133) and seventh in assists per game. Ross has more career assists than any junior in the country with 551 (second place is 66 assists behind).
• Ross set Pepperdine's career record for assists on December 14 and is now taking aim at the career scoring record. He's moved up to 15th place on the all-time list and is just 320 points shy of the record. His first two points on Saturday will move him in front of assistant coach Gerald Brown on the all-time list.
• The Waves are the only WCC school with three players in the top 10 in scoring: Ross (second at 19.9), Kameron Edwards (fourth at 16.7) and Kessler Edwards (10th at 14.3). The trio has scored 64.0% of the Waves' points this season.
• Throw in Skylar Chavez's 11.0 points per game, and that quartet has scored 77.6% of the Waves' points. The four scored 60 of the Waves' 75 in Thursday's win over LMU.
• Kameron Edwards has been named one of 30 candidates for the Senior CLASS Award.
• Pepperdine ranks first nationally in free throw percentage at 83.5%. Ross is tied for the WCC lead at 88.9% and has made 104 free throws, fourth-most nationally.
• Pepperdine has been dealing with missed playing time all season long. The Waves have been without multiple scholarship players due to injury or illness 15 times this season, and have been without four of them in each of the last three games. Only three players have appeared in all 17 games.
• The Waves next visit Santa Clara on Thursday (Jan. 23).

WAVECASTS — Saturday's game can be heard online via WaveCasts at PepperdineWaves.com. Veteran play-by-play man Al Epstein, a 2015 Pepperdine Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, will be behind the microphone (now in his 35th season, this will be his 1,056th consecutive broadcast for the Waves).

WATCH — The game will be televised nationally on the CBS Sports Network. Rich Waltz, Dan Dickau and Justin Walters are the announcers.

TICKETS — Single-game tickets for most Pepperdine home games are $25 for reserved seating, $15 for adult general admission and $12 for alumni or child general admission. Select premium games are $30, $20 and $15, respectively. Tickets are available via PepperdineWaves.com or by calling (310) 506-4764.

PEPPERDINE — Pepperdine boasts a one-of-a-kind athletic department with unprecedented success for a school of its size. The Waves have won NCAA Division I championships in five different men's sports — one of just 18 schools to have accomplished this feat — and nine overall. Of this elite group, Pepperdine has the smallest undergraduate enrollment, is the only school without football and is the only university that has not been affiliated with a "major" conference. The Waves have won a total of 25 team or individual national championships in their history. Pepperdine has also earned the Division I-AAA All-Sports Trophy, an award based on postseason success that's given to the top non-football school, three times (most recently in 2011-12). The Waves have produced 205 conference championships, 318 All-Americans and 53 Olympians. Located in scenic Malibu, California, the university overlooks the Pacific Ocean and its campus and athletic facilities are regularly voted among the nation's most beautiful. Pepperdine, which is affiliated with the Church of Christ, ranks #50 overall on U.S. News and World Report's list of America's best colleges.